Spotlight
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Blues for an Alabama Sky
The African Continuum Theatre Company presents Blues for an Alabama Sky. Set in the summer of 1930 in Harlem, the creative euphoria of the Harlem...
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Hitchcock Retrospective at AFI
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents the second in a three-part series this year exploring the works of the great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Part...
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Deconstructing the Beatles
The composer and producer Scott Freiman offers “Looking Through A Glass Onion: Deconstructing The White Album,” a sure-to-be fascinating live multimedia lecture exploring all aspects...
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The Washington Bach Consort’s Season Finale
The Washington Bach Consort’s season finale celebrates Easter and draws from four distinct areas of Bach’s incomparable creative genius, including Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in...
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Crosby and Nash at Strathmore
David Crosby and Graham Nash, two of the anti-Vietnam War era’s most prolific singer-songwriters — and core members of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young —...
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The Stephen Schwartz Project
The No Rules Theatre Company, just honored with a special Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, presents The Stephen Schwartz Project, a musical...
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The Inspector at The Barns of Wolf Trap
Only the second opera the Wolf Trap Foundation has yet commissioned, John Musto and Mark Campbell’s new comedy The Inspector is based on Russian writer...
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Kylie Minogue — tonight at the Patriot Center
One of Australia’s leading exports, Kylie Minogue is on par with Madonna pretty much everywhere but in America, where she’s more of a curiosity —...
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The Sweetlife Festival is this Sunday at Merriweather!
Merriweather Post Pavilion kicks off its 2011 season with The Sweetlife Festival, sponsored by delicious local salad chain sweetgreen and featuring performances by indie-cred acts...
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From Berlin to Sunset
The new cabaret From Berlin to Sunset revolves around the constellation of emigre artists in Nazi-era 1940s Hollywood, including Billy Wilder, Erich Korngold, Kurt Weill...
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This week’s episode of Swish Edition
Featuring news headlines and commentary from Metro Weekly editor Sean Bugg.
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Theater Thursday! The Walworth Farce at Studio Theatre!
Two brothers and an innocent stranger are held hostage by a despotic father in Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce — and the audience doesn’t escape...
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Theater Thursday! Divorcees at Gala!
You can’t help but notice similarities between the 1988 Spanish film Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown and this Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians,...
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Theater Thursday! Art at Signature!
Three longtime friends debate the purchase by one of a hugely expensive painting in Yasmina Reza’s Art. As the friends become increasingly fractious and, eventually,...
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Greyson Chance continues his fabulous sudden career
You can blame — or praise, if you insist — YouTube for this concert pairing Greyson Chance and Cody Simpson, since it brought both barely...
